OPERATIONS ASSISTANT

Liberty Common School is seeking an operations assistant primarily responsible for day-to-day operations and support duties beginning May of 2025. Liberty Common School is a public, tuition-free school chartered by the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado utilizing the Core Knowledge© curriculum and timeless principles of classically oriented education. The school currently enrolls over 1500 students grades k-12.

Liberty Common School follows the Core Knowledge© curriculum in grades k–8. This curriculum encompasses language arts, mathematics, science, history, geography, fine arts, and physical education. The curriculum is characterized by content-rich instruction, cumulative knowledge, content-specific lessons, and coherent sequencing. The school’s mission is to provide excellence and fairness in education by teaching a contextual body of organized knowledge, the skills of learning, and the values of a democratic society. This is done through parental choice, partnership with teachers, and student acceptance of responsibility for her/his academic effort.

FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Salary Non-Exempt

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Regular, part-time

WORK HOURS: 20-25 hours per week

PAY RANGE: $20,000-$25,000

REPORTS TO: Director of Operations

REVISION DATE: March 2025

Minimum Essential Duties:

• Provides quality customer service to LCS staff, parents, and Board of Directors
• Professionally greets visitors and efficiently answers telephones, mail and email communication
• Assists in maintaining efficient data pipeline student records
• Provides clerical and administrative support to all Liberty staff
• Other common school-office and clerical duties as required.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in office or school settings
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to represent the school in a professional and courteous manner to parents, students, and visitors
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a dynamic, customer-driven environment
• Demonstrated computer literacy including word processing, excel and google
• Demonstrated skill in prioritizing and successfully completing multiple tasks and projects
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability and willingness to be part of a hard-working, active team
• Ability and willingness to work with a variety of constituents
• Demonstrated effective communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with frequent interruptions, use time efficiently, prioritize, demonstrate attention to detail, follow instructions, and respond to management direction
• Ability to be self-motivated
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job
• Ability to maintain honesty and integrity in all aspects of the job

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to maneuver uneven surfaces
• Must be able to carry or transfer up to 20lbs of supplies frequently
• Must be able to work in occasionally loud environments
• Must be able to frequently use office technology including computers, copiers, and printers
• Must be able to use commercial office tools including paper cutters and staplers

Preferred Characteristics:

• Experience with school operations and related administrative tasks
• Exceptional people skills

Benefits:

• Enrollment in Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) and employer contributions to your PERA retirement account
• Earned sick leave in accordance with Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces (HFWA) Act

EEO STATEMENT

Liberty Common School is an EEO employer. Applicants are considered for positions for which they have applied without regard to gender (regardless of gender identity or gender expression), race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy, or other characteristics protected by law.

Studies indicate women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they can perform all job descriptions identified in the job-vacancy announcement. Liberty Common School prioritizes identifying the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less-traditional background. Liberty Common School may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and lived experiences to meet minimum qualifications.

Liberty Common School is located in the City of Fort Collins in Northern Colorado. Northern Colorado is an integral part of the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations. European-American trappers and traders arrived by the early 1800s but rarely established permanent settlements. Gold and silver discoveries in the Colorado mountains in the mid-1800s and the prospect of land for farming and ranching attracted people from across the globe to the Colorado Territory, including what would become the town of Fort Collins; an agricultural colony that emerged from its founding days as a military fort. The expansion included the sugar-beet industry's growth, which brought new residents whose descendants still live here today, including Mexican-American families from southern Colorado, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, as well as Germans from Russia. Since 1879, Fort Collins has been the home of the state’s land-grant institution, Colorado State University, which currently enrolls 34,000 students. Along with the university, the city’s major high-tech and manufacturing companies and high performing charter-public schools attract new residents from all over the country and world. The community’s overall social diversity continues to grow.

AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT

All employment with Liberty Common School is voluntary and is subject to termination by you or Liberty Common School at-will, with or without cause, and with or without notice, at any time. There is no guarantee, in any manner, Liberty Common School will continue employment for any set period of time. This applies to all aspects of employment at Liberty Common School including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion, placement, discipline, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and access to benefits and training.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

Please note this job description is not a comprehensive list of activities, duties, and responsibilities required of this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice from Liberty Common School.

For more information about Liberty Common School, visit www.libertycommon.org

A complete application includes nothing less than the following items:

• 
  Letter of application
• Resume
• Three references with phone numbers.

This job posting will remain open until positions are filled.

Mail to:

Mrs. Beverly Hanawalt, Director of Operations

Liberty Common School

2130 West Horsetooth Road

Fort Collins, CO 80526

Or e-mail to: bhanawalt@libertycommon.org

Liberty Common School is an EEO employer.